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WRESHER
Volume 75, Number 18
Don't trust anyone over 30.
Friday, February 5,1988
Party causes confusion over monitor system
by Anu Bajaj
The new monitor system has posed
several questions for the Alcoholic
Beverage Policy Advisory Commit-
tee in its first week of implementa-
tion. In response to Will Rice
College's failure to comply fully with
the alcohol policy last weekend, the
committee must determine how the
monitor's evaluations are to be used
and the judicial procedure which will
be used to handle violations of the
alcohol policy.
Allegations made against Will
Rice College and the Will Rice Col-
lege Social Chairmen, Robert Nevill
and Charles Krusekopf, have resulted
in conflicting viewpoints on what the
judicial procedure is in such a case.
WRC faces charges of misrepre-
senting on the Alcohol Policy Liabil-
ity Form the number of people ex-
pected to attend its "New Dorm
Tower Party." Nevill had stated that
only ISO people were expected at the
party. However, the Campus Police
made a head count of over 200 people
at the party.
The liability form is submitted to
and signed by Associate Director of
Student Activities Lois Waldron,
Proctor Edward Holt, and the college
master.
According to the alcohol policy,
any function under 200 people
doesn't require a Campus Police offi-
cer; a function between 200-600
people requires one officer; and func-
tions of 600 people or more require at
least two Campus Police officers.
"I said that there would only be 150
people because Will Rice has a repu-
tation of having lame parties. I was
not aware that we were the only func-
tion of campus Friday night It's not
an easy task to guestimate the number
of people that will attend a party. It
could just as easily have been 50,"
said Nevill.
Krusekopf questions the fact that
nobody warned them that the number
estimated to attend the party was not
in line with the amount of alcohol
purchased and the amount of money
spent on the party.
According to Krusekopf, $550 was
spent on hard liquor, and another
$200 on kegs. The WRC Diet had
approved $1,000 for the party.
Krusekopf said, "We ordered an alco-
holic drink for each room." WRC
purchased a case of alcohol for all of
the rooms on each of the five floors in
WRC's tower.
Ned Hibberd, Brown College So-
cial Chairman and a member of the
committee said,"They advertised
campus-wide; it was free; and they
spent $600 on hard liquor. Anyone
who has been a social for more than
three days will realize that they're
see Evaluations, page 8
SA okays officer additions
by Elise Perachlo
The Student Association Senate
discussed changes in the Rice
Progam Council's constitution, the
Senate's constitution and Election
Code, the upcoming Charity Ball
and the problems with the new lights
installed by the Wiess tennis courts
at their last meeting.
The position of RPC Vice-Presi-
dent will now be split into two of-
fices, Internal and External Vice-
Presidents. The current Vice-Presi-
dent, Paul Salinas, will become In-
ternal Vice-President. The SA ap-
proved RPC President Rachael
Giesber's nomination of Alex Flen-
ner for the external position.
SA President Kevin Gass sug-
gested two constitutional changes:
creating the appointed position of
Executive Vice-President and mak-
ing the SA secretary an appointed
rather than elected position. The
Executive Vice-President would be
editor of an S A newsletter and act as
an assistant to the president. Neither
position would have voting power in
the Senate. Both changes were de-
signed to strengthen the executive
branch of the S A.
The proposal to change the SA
Secretary position to an appointed
rather than elected one failed when
put to a vote. Wiess President Bill
Davis asked why Gass had singled
out the secretary as opposed to any
other office for the change. Gass
explained that the secretary "has no
direct obligation to the student-body
except putting out the minutes."
Davis added that the secretary also
heads the Election Committee, which
does have an impact on students.
The decision concerning the Ex-
ecutive Vice-President position was
tabled until the next meeting since
Gass has no plans to appoint one dur-
ing the remainder of his term in of-
fice.
Several senators objected to in-
cluding the specific duty of editor of
the SA newsletter in the description
of the Executive Vice-President, and
many expressed concern about the
cost of such a newsletter, since the
proposed constitutional change con-
cerning the Executive Vice-Presi-
dent stated that the newsletter must
come out three times a year. Earlier in
the meeting, the Senate passed $300
for the first issue of the newsletter
which is due out this month.
The SA did approve revisions in
the Election Code proposed by the
Election Committee. The changes
included allowing two weeks for
campaigning and limiting campaign
Election petitions for campus-
wide offices are due by 3 p.m. Tues-
day at die Student Association office
on the second floor of the Ley Cen-
ter.
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and phOtO-
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The Thresher office is located on
the«&bnd floor of the Lfey Center,
expenses to $25.
. In other business, Will Rice Social
Chairman Charles Krusekopf gave a
report about the April 29 Charity Ball
for graduating seniors and alumni.
There will be a $15 ticket charge for
seniors for the event benefitting the
Rice Student Volunteer Program.
Krusekopf said the money will be
used to "start some sort of endow-
ment so year to year they [the RS VP]
won't have to ask the university for
money." The charity ball committee
plans to visit each college cabinet to
ask for a $200 donation for the event
This money would help underwrite
expenses for bills before the event
The event will cost $10,000 and the
committee hopes to make $30,000,
said Krusekopf.
Several college presidents ex-
pressed concern about the requested
donation. Lovett President Glenn
Dukes pointed out that the money
would be asked of students from all
four classes, while only the seniors
were being invited. He also sug-
gested that the committee ought to be
able to get this money from ticket pre-
sales. Andy Kopplin said that $200
would be "hard to find" for most
colleges at this point in the year. Bill
Davis asked if the $200 would be-
come a yearly expense that colleges
would need to budget. Krusekopf
agreed to meet with the presidents
separately to discuss the issue.
Senator Jon Luckstead announced
that lights on the tennis courts and
intramural fields will be turned on
every night until 10 p.m. He added
that only the lights on the Tennis
court furthest from Wiess would be
lit. Wiess senator Charlotte Sun ob-
jected when Luckstead claimed that
late night tennis games would not
disturb students living on that side of
Wiess. Sun said, "You'd be surprised
what a loud game tennis is." She also
said that students playing tennis
would use Wiess as their "bathroom
center and food center" which she felt
would disturb the college. She asked
that the Wiess cabinet be consulted
before the lighting system becomes
operational.
see SA, page 8
Scrim between Lovett and Sewall Halls
—D. Kelley
Vandals sabotage
campus art works
by Lisa Gray
Two scrim-ai.o-plywood works by
artist Robert Irwin were vandalized
in the Rice quadrangle Friday eve-
ning. The police have no suspects at
present, according to Campus Police
Chief Mary Voswinkle.
Nonsense words were painted in
black poster paint on both the trans-
parent outdoor pieces. The words
"schmoke me" appeared on the scrim
between Anderson Hall and Fondren
Library. "I. TAHM JACK" was
painted on the scrim between Lovett
Hall and Sewall Hall. Irwin's assis-
tants have removed the damaged
scrims.
William Camfield, professor of art
and art history, says the graffiti are
the latest in "a whole series of at-
tacks" on the scrims. Other vandal-
ism has included slashing, staining,
and puncturing the scrims, tearing
them down, and one attempt to "see if
a scrim would burn," Camfield says.
"We don't know if [all the attacks]
have been by the same person."
Irwin, assisted by Rice graduate
Marc McCollum and Ed Wilson of
the Art and Art History Department
erected four scrims in campus arch-
ways in October. Irwin has installed
similar works in scrim—a transpar-
ent white fabric which encourages
the play of light—in other public
spaces. His aim, he writes, is to "refo-
cus the too-often habituated eye of
the passeiby to the qualities and
pleasures in his or her immediate
environment."
Irwin will return to campus in
March as a Cullinan visiting profes-
sor, and had planned to be on campus
this weekend to expand two of the
one-dimensional constructions in the
arches to three-dimensional ones in
the bays.
Camfield, though, fears that the
vandalism may have brought an end
to Irwin's work on campus. "What he
does this weekend and in the future
will be contingent on vandalism,"
Camfield said. "If it continues, this is
not a viable project."
As a Cullinan professor, Irwin will
give four public lectures and will be
available to speak in classes and to
interested groups on campus. Irwin
intended the temporary scrim pieces
to spark dialogue with the university
community during his tenure as a
Cullinan Professor.
According to Camfield, Irwin has
been recognized as one of the most
significant artists in America ypce
the mid-1960s. His accomplishments
include theoretical writings and nu-
merous exhibitions, installations and
site-related works of art in museums,
universities and other public places.
The Cullinan Chair for a visiting
professor in the field of art architec-
ture or urban planning was estab-
lished in 1984-85 by Nina Cullinan
for her brother Craig Francis Culli-
nan. Past recipients of the Cullinan
Chair include architect and architec-
tural historian Kenneth Frampton,
cultural geographer and historian
J.B. Jackson and architectural histo-
rian Spiro Kostof.
Irwin has just finished work on the
Miami airport and currently holds
one of the prestigious Mac Arthur
Fellowships.
INSIDE:
Opinion: Monitor debate
continues, page 2.
News: Seniors ask for course
credit, page 6.
Fine Arts: Bloody Haitian
voodoo, page 9.
Sports: True Blue Owls.
page 14.
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